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dc.contributor.authorGrundvåg, Sten-Andreas
dc.contributor.authorJelby, Mads
dc.contributor.authorMidtkandal, Ivar
dc.contributor.authorSliwinska, Kasia
dc.contributor.authorNøhr-Hansen, Henrik
dc.contributor.authorMarin Restrepo, Dora Luz
dc.contributor.authorKairanov, Bereke
dc.contributor.authorEscalona, Alejandro
dc.contributor.authorOlaussen, Snorre
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-08T08:06:20Z
dc.date.available2023-09-08T08:06:20Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThe Lower Cretaceous succession in the Barents Sea is listed as a potential play model by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. Reservoirs may occur in deep to shallow marine clastic wedges located in proximity to palaeo-highs and along basin margins. In addition, shelf-prism-scale clinoforms with high amplitude anomalies in their top- and bottomsets have been reported from reflection seismic but they have never been drilled. In Svalbard, the exposed northwestern corner of the Barents Shelf, Lower Cretaceous strata of shelfal to paralic origin occur, and includes the Rurikfjellet (Valanginian–Hauterivian/lowermost Barremian), Helvetiafjellet (lower Barremian–lower Aptian) and Carolinefjellet formations (lower Aptian–middle Albian). By combining sedimentological outcrop studies and dinocyst analyses with offshore seismic and well ties, this study investigate the link between the onshore strata and the offshore clinoforms. Age-vise, only three (S1–S3) of the seismic sequences defined in the offshore areas correlate to the onshore strata; S1 correspond to the Rurikfjellet Formation, S2 to the Helvetiafjellet Formation and the lower Carolinefjellet Formation, and S3 to the upper Carolinefjellet Formation. Offshore, all three sequences contain generally southward prograding shelf-prism-scale clinoforms. A lower Barremian subaerial unconformity defines the base of the Helvetiafjellet Formation, and its extent indicates that most of the Svalbard platform was exposed and acted as a bypass zone in the early Barremian. Onshore palaeo-current directions is generally towards the SE, roughly consistent with the clinoform accretion-direction towards the S. The local occurrence of a 150 m thick succession of gravity flow deposits transitionally overlain by prodelta slope to delta front deposits in the Rurikfjellet Formation, may indicate that shelfedges also developed in Svalbard. The late Hauterivian age of theses deposits potentially highlights the inferred offlapping nature of the Lower Cretaceous strata as they predate the lower Barremian unconformity, and thus record a hitherto unknown regression in Svalbard. The presence of the lower Barremian subaerial unconformity in Svalbard, the general southeastward palaeo-current directions, and the age-equivalent clinoform-packages south of Svalbard, suggests that the onshore and offshore strata is genetically linked and was part of the same palaeo-drainage system.en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1527387
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/30791
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 228107en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.titleThe Lower Cretaceous of Svalbard and its relevance for exploration in the northern Barents Seaen_US
dc.typeConference objecten_US
dc.typeKonferansebidragen_US


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